Distinguished Professor of Psychology named Guggenheim Fellow

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Distinguished Professor of Psychology named Guggenheim Fellow

April 11, 2013

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Judith Kroll, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Linguistics and Women’s Studies and director of Penn State’s Center for Language Science, has been named a 2013-14 Guggenheim Fellow.

Kroll is among a diverse group of 175 artists, scientists and scholars selected this year from nearly 3,000 applicants across the United States and Canada. According to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellows are chosen on the basis of achievement and exceptional promise. This year's Guggenheim Fellows represent 56 disciplines from 85 different academic institutions.

A renowned psycholinguist and worldwide leader in the field of bilingualism and second-language acquisition, Kroll has developed a foundational theoretical model of how language is represented cognitively. In 2012 she was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for “distinguished contributions to the fields of psychology, particularly psycholinguistic models of bilingualism, and for support and mentoring of women in science.”

Now in its 89th year, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted more than $306 million in fellowships to more than 17,500 individuals, including Nobel laureates, poets laureate, winners of Pulitzer Prizes, Fields Medals and other important, internationally recognized honors. For more information, visit http://www.gf.org.